How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
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How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
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Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#2This post adequately sums up my concerns.
Here we have a device that doesn't support USB thumbdrives, doesn't support dropbox (at least system-wide, I assume the dropbox iphone app would work), is unable to run ruby or any of my other dev scripts/tools, cannot install firefox or firefox plugins, etc.
I do not want to see computing head this direction.
Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#3I bet someone at Apple is thinking hard about how could they seal the MacPro case too. It's the only system they sell that you are allowed to open and upgrade or tinker (beyond something limited like a RAM upgrade).
Apple is no longer called Apple Computers because they will not sell computers anymore. They will sell closed devices with a closed software ecosystem. They will also sell the best devices money can buy.
Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#4The revolutionary thing about this tablet is that it's not a Mac. Tablets have been around for a while and haven't caught on because nobody wants to buy a keyboardless laptop running a normal OS.
If you are worried about openness, then look to Android. I'm sure we will see a plethora of Android tablets that will be like a large Droid/Nexus One just like this tablet is a large iPhone.
Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#5The revolutionary thing about this tablet is that it's not a Mac. Tablets have been around for a while and haven't caught on because nobody wants to buy a keyboardless laptop running a normal OS. If you are worried about openness, then look to Android. I'm sure we will see a plethora of Android tablets that will be like a large Droid/Nexus One just like this tablet is a large iPhone.
But the design will be shit and you won't have the user base.
Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#6Unfortunately, this is what people like my mom and my sister want: something dead simple and easy to use like iPhone.
Both OSX and Windows still give them a lot of trouble.
It's hard to pair both freedom and flexibility with ease of use and simplicity.
Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#7Apple has managed to maintain consistency and provide a level of experience over the years by tightly controlling the platform. This is just another manifestation of that. Look at the App store, the fact that you have to use hacks to get OS X running on a PC or that you buy Apple computers with OS X being pre-loaded as examples of that.
If you don't like the closed platform you can grab a PC, but I think this is just how Steve Jobs does things -- he likes to have as much control as possible so that Apple can deliver a certain type and level of experience to users.
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#8The revolutionary thing about this tablet is that it's not a Mac. Tablets have been around for a while and haven't caught on because nobody wants to buy a keyboardless laptop running a normal OS. If you are worried about openness, then look to Android. I'm sure we will see a plethora of Android tablets that will be like a large Droid/Nexus One just like this tablet is a large iPhone.
But the design will be shit and you won't have the user base.
"design will be shit"? I think that the Nexus One has eliminated that argument.
Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#9My position is if I pay good money for hardware it's mine and I will do with it as I please. And I will not buy it until it has been hacked (and I can install Linux on it ;-) ).
Same with my iPhone. It wouldn't be half as useful without being jailbroken.
Re: How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
#10The revolutionary thing about this tablet is that it's not a Mac. Tablets have been around for a while and haven't caught on because nobody wants to buy a keyboardless laptop running a normal OS. If you are worried about openness, then look to Android. I'm sure we will see a plethora of Android tablets that will be like a large Droid/Nexus One just like this tablet is a large iPhone.
But the design will be shit and you won't have the user base.
then make a better one